This work was aimed at evaluating the effects of the butorphanol in dogs preceded or not buy levomepromazine on heart rate (HR), systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressure (SAP, DAP and MAP, respectively), respiratory rate (RR), end tidal CO2 (ETCO2), oxyhemoglobin saturation (SpO2), minute volume (MV) and tidal volume (TV). Twenty adult animals, clinically health were randomly distributed in two groups with ten animals each one (CG and LG). The first one received intravenous administration (IV) of 0.2mL kg-1 of saline solution at 0.9% (control). After 15 minutes, 0.3mg kg-1 of butorphanol was administrated by the same way. The same methodology was adopted to the GL animals, however, the saline solution at 0.9% was substituted to 1mg kg-1 of levomepromazine. The cardiorespiratory parameters were measured before the administration of the drugs (M1). New measurements were carried 15 minutes after saline or levomepromazine administration (M2), and 10 minutes after butorphanol administration (M3). The next M4, M5 and M6 were carried out through at intervals of 10 minutes during 30 minutes. The numeric data were submitted to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey test (p<0.05) for the comparisons of the averages. The butorfanol promoted significative decreasing on cardiac and respiratory rate and reduction on minute volume after administration of levomepromazine. However these changes were discreet and did not produce depression on other circulatory and breathing parameters.
cardiopulmonary; dogs; levomepromazine; butorphanol
